If bovine spongiform
encephalopathy turns out to be infectious, it could cause problems out of proportion to the number of cases.
HARD KNOCKS A degenerative brain disease called chronic traumatic
encephalopathy turns up in athletes like football players who take many hits to the head.
Not exact matches
Examinations of NFL players» postmortem brains
turned up chronic traumatic
encephalopathy in 99 percent of samples in large dataset.
Not all reports will
turn out to be bovine spongiform
encephalopathy.
It cause animal brains to
turn into a spongy mess in scrapie, a disease of sheep, and in bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE or «mad cow disease»), as well as in human prion diseases such as CJD.
He
turned it into a stirring, occasionally preachy tale about the Pittsburgh pathologist who discovered chronic traumatic
encephalopathy but could get hardly anyone to listen to him.